August 8, 2012: Morning
- NPR begins series visiting First and Main intersections in political-battleground states.
- Porn stars' presidential endorsements.
- Profile of transition within a Japanese firm that switched all communication to English.
- Kremlin critic live-tweets discovering that his office is bugged.
- Madonna defends punk band for staging anti-Putin stunt in Moscow’s main Russian Orthodox cathedral.
- Putin hates seeing his hand kissed by Orthodox priests.
- Data says male and female Olympian performance levels may soon converge.
- Study finds gender stereotypes, which typically bias social perceptions of humans, are even applied to robots.
- Things learned from reading every last word in the latest issue of Cosmo.
- Armchair athletes probably don't need to drink beetroot juice the way Olympians do, but they may want to down that tart cherry.
- Dance guide to Serena Williams's C Walk.
- Larry McMurtry to trim his book collection by 300,000 titles.
- J. Geils sues J. Geils Band for planning a tour that excludes him.
- Sarah Hepola on the appeal of power ballads.
- In case you didn't know, The Onion has a reality show: Sex House.